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Life and adventures of Richard Turpin, a most notorious highwayman : comprising a particular account of all his robberies, his ride to York, and his trial and execution for horse-stealing, April 7th, 1739 : (illustrated with coloured plates)

by: Fortey, W. S.(William Samuel)prt

Publication date: 1860

Topics: Brigands and robbers -- Biography., Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Turpin, Richard, 1706-1739, Brigands and robbers, Chapbooks

Publisher: London : Printed by W.S. Fortey, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury, W.C.

Collection: mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English

8 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 x 14 cm.

Cover title

Undated. Date from publisher's years of activity, cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 68

Illustration on cover

Text continues on p. [4] of cover

Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: blue pictorial wrappers

First sentence: "Richard Turpin was born at Hampstead, in Essex, where his father kept the sign of the Bell; and after being the usual time at school, he was bound to apprentice to a butcher in Whitechapel, but did not serve out his time, for his master discharged him for impropriety of conduct, which was not in the least diminished by his parents' indulgence in supplying him with money, which enabled him to cut a figure round the town, among the blades of the road and the turf, whose company he usually kept."

Includes 6 woodcuts

Addeddate: 2013-06-26 17:55:31

Callnumber: RBD CHILD PN970 F6 L4 1860 SJL 1 Rare Books/Special Collections - Children's Collection (McLennan Bldg, 4th floor)

Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_F6_L4_1860-1170

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t6nz9td4n

Note: Cover title.
Undated. Date from publisher's years of activity, cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 68.
Illustration on cover.
Text continues on p. [4] of cover.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: blue pictorial wrappers.
First sentence: "Richard Turpin was born at Hampstead, in Essex, where his father kept the sign of the Bell; and after being the usual time at school, he was bound to apprentice to a butcher in Whitechapel, but did not serve out his time, for his master discharged him for impropriety of conduct, which was not in the least diminished by his parents' indulgence in supplying him with money, which enabled him to cut a figure round the town, among the blades of the road and the turf, whose company he usually kept."
Includes 6 woodcuts.